Macular Hole - help

[jessyubi]

Please help!!! Im only 34 years old and have been diagnosed with marcular hole in my right eye.. and after seeing 5 specialists so far, all is advissing "watch-and-wait" approach for now rather than surgery due to uncertainty of the surgery result and the vision recovery. Reasons are 1. my other eye is lazy eye, so pretty much no vision, and 2. right eye which has macular hole is extremely myopia.  Too much of risk around what will my recovery vision be??? if poor vision result, then i will be seriously vision imparied at age of 34!!!!  Please help.. what do you think? have you seen cases of macular hole in myopia eye and what were the vision recovery after the surgery.. thank you

[Sandy Feldman, MD, MS]

Dear jessyubi,

First, I would advise that you seek the care of an eyeMD specializing in retina, if you have not.  If you have, I would call the one that you feel most comfortable with and discuss your concerns and care.  He will be able to assist.

Dr. Feldman

Sandy T. Feldman, M.D., M.S.
ClearView Eye and Laser Medical Center
San Diego, California

[kisstheday209]

I'm 51 and had macular hole repair 3 weeks ago in my right eye.  I used to be -9.5 in that eye nearsidedness, had lasix surgery in 2000 and was corrected to -1.25 (I think)
I was reading 20/25 in the eye before surgery and at 3 weeks I am at 20/50.
Don't know if this helps.  Can you get your lazy eye fixed?

[jessyubi]

Hi kisstheday209
Thank you.. yes it does help..I understand that when it comes to any types of surgery, there are risks invovled and individual cases are all different, but as all retinal specialists i've seen are hesitant to do the surgery, i'm so scared that i am absolutely a rare case that they do not know what to expect after the surgery in terms of whether the hole will close and that my vision will recover.  This is the impression i'm getting from the specialists.. they are not certain...
The speciliast told me that my eye shape is that of a rugby ball and the macular hole is right at the pointy end, as opposed to the normal round eye shape, and this alone reduces the surgery success rate of 90% to 80% for me..
In respect to my laze yeye - can't be fixed.....:(..